Province of Pennsylvania
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Was a British North American colony founded by William Penn.
Establishment
March 1681: The Province of Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn on March 4, 1681, through a royal charter from King Charles II. This territory was acquired from the Duke of York and became a haven for Quakers and other religious minorities seeking freedom in the New World.
March 1681: Maryland lost some of its original territory to Pennsylvania in the 1660s when King Charles II granted the Penn family, owners of Pennsylvania, a tract that overlapped the Calvert family's Maryland grant.
Chronology
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Was a revolution in England and Scotland that led to the deposition of Catholic King James II.
November 1688: By November 1688 William of Orange, who was Stadtholder of the Netherlands, and his wife Mary, were in control of England and Wales. They would later become King and Queen of Great Britain.
Were fought by European governments and colonists in North America, and later by the United States and Canadian governments and American and Canadian settlers, against various American Indian and First Nation tribes.
2.1.Cherokee-American wars
Were a series of skirmishes between the Cherokee and the American settlers on the frontier.
October 1768: To address the issue of settlers living beyond the boundaries established by earlier treaties, John Stuart, the Superintendent for Southern Indian Affairs, negotiated a treaty on October 17, 1768. This agreement resulted in the Cherokee surrendering their claims to lands between the Allegheny Mountains and the Ohio River to the Colony of Virginia. This territory now encompasses most of West Virginia and eastern Kentucky, as well as a portion of southwestern Pennsylvania.
Was the war of independence of the United States of America (at the time the Thirteen Colonies) against Great Britain.
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
January 1683: Delaware was governed as part of Pennsylvania in 1682 by William Penn, who was the founder of the Province of Pennsylvania. This arrangement lasted until 1701 when Delaware was granted its own separate assembly.
January 1684: Expansion of Pennsylvania by 1683.
January 1685: Expansion of Pennsylvania by 1684.
January 1702: The Lower Counties petitioned for and were granted an independent colonial legislature.
March 1702: As William III of England was also the de facto ruler of the Dutch Republic (as Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic), the Personal Union between Netherlands and Great Britain ended at his death.
January 1719: Expansion of Pennsylvania by 1718.
January 1733: Expansion of Pennsylvania by 1732.
January 1737: Pennsylvania land purchase through the Treaty with Canassatego (1736). Canassatego was a leader of the Onondaga nation.
January 1738: Expansion of Pennsylvania by 1737.
January 1750: Pennsylvania land purchase through the Treaty with Canassatego (1749). Canassatego was a leader of the Onondaga nation.
January 1755: Expansion of Pennsylvania by 1754.
January 1769: 1768 Boundary Line Treaty of Fort Stanwix with Indigenous Americans.
January 1775: The Virginia Colony expanded its territories with the Treaty of Camp Charlotte (1774).
Disestablishment
July 1776: United States Declaration of Independence: the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.
Selected Sources
1768 Boundary Line Treaty of Fort Stanwix. National Park Service. Retrieved on 7 April 2024 on https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/1768-boundary-line-treaty-of-fort-stanwix.htm
Declaration of Independence of the United States of America, https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript
Israel, J. I. (1995): The Dutch Republic: Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall, Clarendon Press, pp. 959-960
Pennsylvania land purchases. Wikipedia. Retrieved on 7 April 2024 on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pennsylvania_land_purchases.png
Sipe, C.H. (1929): The Indian wars of Pennsylvania, The Telegraph Press, Harrisburg (PA), p.120
Sipe, C.H. (1929): The Indian wars of Pennsylvania, The Telegraph Press, Harrisburg (PA), p.137
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